Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh
Forty years before Apple Vision Pro, practically to the day, Apple launched the Macintosh — and it eventually changed the world.
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Forty years before Apple Vision Pro, practically to the day, Apple launched the Macintosh — and it eventually changed the world.
In 1984, a $2.5k computer - with a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB RAM, 400 KB floppy drive, and built-in networking - changed everything. Until it didn't. Then these two things saved the Mac.
Revolutionizing personal computing, forty years ago, the late Steve Jobs launched the Apple Macintosh, the first PC with a user-friendly mouse and...
Forty years ago Steve Jobs revolutionised personal computing by launching the Apple Macintosh, the first PC with a user-friendly mouse and graphical interface that helped the machines enter the everyday lives of people for the first time.
Jobs, playing the showman inventor to perfection in a black suit and silver bow tie, opened a zipper bag in an auditorium in Cupertino, California, on January 24, 1984, and lifted out a lightweight computer that not only operated at the click of a button but also, thrillingly, talked.